All About Debian Linux Tutorials

How to Set Up a High Performance Cluster (HPC) Using Debian Lenny and Kerrighed

2010-03-29T19:41:00.001+01:00

There are many guides found on the net describing Kerrighed and how to set it up using Ubuntu and others.However, to the best of my knowledge there isn’t a step by step guide specifically designed for Kerrighed using Debian Lenny. So here it is. You can set up your own Beowulf Cluster using Debian Lenny and Kerrighed in about 50 steps. Many of the steps described here are taken straight from other guides because there are applicable here (see sources at the bottom.) Many other steps are based on my own trial and error.

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X2go - Open source terminal server project (alternative to FreeNX)

2010-03-15T15:22:00.000Z

x2go is an open source terminal server project offering a comprehensive “server based computing” solution.Combining the advantages of existing systems it features ease of use, performance and scalability. x2go provides you with access to your desktop as an individual as well as a corporate user - from within your own network and via the internet. x2go is not limited to any particular hardware, it supports a variety of devices and architectures. x2go is open source and open minded. The project also offers you a command line client for you to implement your own client applications and ideas. Like any open source project we welcome your support.

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How to Install Tuxonice in Ubuntu

2009-06-24T07:32:00.001+01:00

TuxOnIce is most easily described as the Linux equivalent of Windows’ hibernate functionality,but better. It saves the contents of memory to disk and powers down. When the computer is started up again, it reloads the contents and the user can continue from where they left off. No documents need to be reloaded or applications reopened and the process is much faster than a normal shutdown and start up.

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Upgrade multiple debian systems with Approx

2009-06-16T21:50:00.001+01:00

Approx is an HTTP-based Debian archive server. It fetches packages from remote repositories on demand, and caches them for local use.Approx saves time and network bandwidth if you need to install or upgrade Debian software for a number of machines on a local network.

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Step By Step Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) LAMP Server Setup

2009-05-12T19:31:00.000+01:00

In around 15 minutes, the time it takes to install Ubuntu Server Edition, you can have a LAMP (Linux,Apache, MySQL and PHP) server up and ready to go. This feature, exclusive to Ubuntu Server Edition, is available at the time of installation.The LAMP option means you don’t have to install and integrate each of the four separate LAMP components, a process which can take hours and requires someone who is skilled in the installation and configuration of the individual applications.

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How to Upgrade Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid) to Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty)

2009-04-24T07:54:00.000+01:00

The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop and Server editions and Ubuntu Netbook Remix, continuing Ubuntu’s tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution.This tutorial will explain how to Upgrade Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibix) to Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) released on the 23rd March 2009.

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How to use apt-p2p For Faster Upgrades From Ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04

2009-04-20T08:29:00.000+01:00

apt-p2p is a p2p proxy for apt dowloads, it will act as a proxy between apt requests and a repository server, downloading any request files from peers (if possible), else will fallback to direct HTTP download. In general, apt-p2p save bandwidth, use
limited cpu and memory resources and reduce congestion on the ubuntu mirrors.apt-p2p will get the request files from peers,therefore, it will avoid the congestion on the ubuntu mirrors.

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Genisoimage - Creates ISO-9660 CD-ROM filesystem images

2009-04-16T08:10:00.000+01:00

genisoimage is a pre-mastering program for creating ISO-9660 CD-ROM filesystem images, which can then be written to CD or DVD media using the wodim program. genisoimage includes support for making bootable “El Torito” CDs, as well as CDs with support for the Macintosh HFS filesystem.

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How to setup FreeNX server and Client in Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid)

2009-04-13T08:19:00.001+01:00

FreeNX is a system that allows you to access your desktop from another machine over the Internet. You can use this to login graphically to your desktop from a remote location. One example of its use would be to have a FreeNX server set up on your
home computer, and graphically logging in to the home computer from your work computer, using a FreeNX client.

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vimdiff - Edit two or Three versions of a file with Vim and show differences

2009-04-08T07:46:00.001+01:00

Vimdiff starts Vim on two (or three) files. Each file gets its own window. The differences between the files are highlighted.This is a nice way to inspect changes and to move changes from one version to another version of the same file.

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How to Remove Pulse Audio Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex)

2009-04-07T07:19:00.001+01:00

PulseAudio (formerly PolypAudio) is a cross-platform, networked sound server project. It is intended to be an improved drop-in replacement for the Enlightened Sound Daemon (ESD).By default Ubuntu 8.10 comes with Pulse Audio and most users start complaining about pulse audio so if you don’t want to use Pulse Audio you can remove.

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Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) Beta Released and available for download

2009-03-27T07:48:00.000Z

The Ubuntu developers are moving quickly to bring you the latest and greatest software the Open Source Community has to offer. This is the Ubuntu 9.04 beta release, which brings a host of excellent new features.

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Ubuntu Package Management from Command line using apt

2009-03-24T07:51:00.000Z

The Advanced Packaging Tool, which has since been ported by Conectiva for use with rpm and has been adopted by some other distributions.The apt-get command is a powerful command-line tool used to work with Ubuntu’s Advanced Packaging Tool (APT) performing such functions as installation of new software packages, upgrade of existing software packages, updating of the package list index, and even upgrading the entire Ubuntu system.

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Sound Solutions for Ubuntu Hardy,Intrepid and Jaunty Users

2009-03-16T07:31:00.001Z

If you have just upgraded to or installed Hardy or Intrepid or Jaunty and you have some sound somewhere, but not everywhere for everything, this is a fast way to get all the missing stuff you need and give you some tools to figure out what is going on. If you hear the startup sound but nothing else, or if some applications work and others don’t, this is for you. If you have no sound at all, there is a link at the end of this post for more extensive troubleshooting help but you should try this first anyway as it may solve your problem and will not make matters worse.Make sure that your system is fully updated.

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Howto Convert Vmware Image to Virtualbox Image

2009-03-10T22:24:00.000Z

VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).

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How to Create a Private Encrypted Folder On Ubuntu 8.10

2009-03-05T08:08:00.000Z

eCryptfs is a POSIX-compliant enterprise-class stacked cryptographic filesystem for Linux.It provides advanced key management and policy features. eCryptfs stores cryptographic metadata in the header of each file written, so that encrypted files can be copied between hosts; the file will be decryptable with the proper key, and there is no need to keep track of any additional information aside from what is already in the encrypted file itself. Think of eCryptfs as a sort of “gnupgfs”.eCryptfs is a native Linux filesystem. The kernel module component of eCryptfs is part of the Linux kernel since 2.6.19.

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How to Create an adhoc host with Ubuntu

2009-03-03T06:49:00.000Z

Have you ever needed to wirelessly network a Windows PC’s directly to a Ubuntu machine? In other words, you lack a router, switch, or other networking mechanism, each PC has a wireless device and you need to trade a file or play a network game? Read on.Ubuntu’s NetworkManager 0.7.0 contains the necessary features for creating an Ubuntu adhoc network host.

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Flip - Convert text file line endings between Unix and DOS formats

2009-03-03T06:48:00.000Z

This program converts line endings of text files between MS-DOS and **IX formats. It detects binary files in a nearly foolproof way and leaves them alone unless you override this. It will also leave files alone that are already in the right format and preserves file timestamps. User interrupts are handled gracefully and no garbage or corrupted files left behind. ‘flip’ does not convert files to a different character set, and it can not handle Apple Macintosh line endings (CR only). For that (and more), you can use the ‘recode’ program (package ‘recode’).

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Recover Data From a dead hard drive using ddrescue

2008-01-12T08:02:00.000Z

Like dd, dd_rescue does copy data from one file or block device to another.dd_rescue is a tool to help you to save data from crashed partition. It tries to read and if it fails, it will go on with the next sectors where tools like dd will fail. If the copying process is interrupted by the user it is possible to continue at any position later. It can copy backwards.

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Remotely Manage Machines Using VNC

2008-01-12T08:00:00.000Z

VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing. It is, in essence, a remote display system which allows you to view a computing `desktop’ environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures. Full Story

RTG (Bandwidth and 95th Percentile Monitoring ) Installation and Configuration

2007-11-15T09:30:00.000Z

RTG Stands for Real Traffic Grabber.RTG is a flexible, scalable, high-performance SNMP statistics monitoring system. It is designed for enterprises and service providers who need to collect time-series SNMP data from a large number of targets quickly. All collected data is inserted into a relational database that provides a common interface for applications to generate complex queries and reports. RTG includes utilities that generate configuration and target files, traffic reports, 95th percentile reports and graphical data plots. These utilities may be used to produce a web-based interface to the data.

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Howto Install .rpm Files in Debian

2007-11-15T09:29:00.000Z

Some time you might find some applications are having only .rpm files but you want a .deb package for your debian,Ubuntu and other debian derived ditributions.If you can’t find .deb debian package in any of the debian,ubuntu repositories or elsewhere, you can use the alien package converter to install the .rpm file.

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Enable custom error messages on the Apache web server

2007-09-09T14:14:00.000+01:00

This document describes how to configure the Apache web server so that it will redirect common server errors - like 404 Not Found or 500 Internal Server Error - to a Perl CGI script for processing.

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Debian etch graphical mode installation with screenshots

2007-09-09T14:12:00.000+01:00

Debian etch installation using graphical interface this is really nice installation walkthrough with each step screenshots.This is new feature in debian upcoming release version called etch.This article contains nearly 50 images of this installation process.

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Running Internet Explorer in Debian Linux

2007-08-06T14:18:00.000+01:00

No clicks needed. No boring setup processes. No Wine complications. Just one easy script and you’ll get three IE versions to test your Sites. And it’s free and open source.This may be very helpful for software developers and web developers to test their applications.

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Debian Network Utilities and tools With Examples

2007-08-06T14:15:00.000+01:00

This is the list of debian network utilities and tools for administrators and users to check the network related traffic, monitor network.This includes installation of each package with man pages.This full list devided in to two parts which is Part1 Networking tools and Part2 Networking Tools network tools

Debian etch graphical mode installation with screenshots

2007-06-04T15:37:00.000+01:00

Debian etch beta3 installation using graphical interface this is really nice installation walkthrough with each step screenshots.This is new feature in debian upcoming release version called etch.This article contains nearly 50 images of this installation process.

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Enable custom error messages on the Apache web server

2007-06-04T15:35:00.000+01:00

This document describes how to configure the Apache web server so that it will redirect common server errors - like 404 Not Found or 500 Internal Server Error - to a Perl CGI script for processing.

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Opensource Bandwidth,Network and Servers Monitoring tools with Tutorials

2007-04-04T15:06:00.000+01:00

This is very good tutorials for bandwidth monitoring,network monitoring and servers monitoring tools with clear step by step installation guides this includes Nagios,MRTG,RTG,Netmrg,Darkstat,monit,munin,mon,oreon,Saidar ,Cacti,Bigsister,ibmonitor,zabbix.This resouce is Very useful for Users and Administrators to monitor their networks,bandwidth and servers.

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ZABBIX monitoring System installation with screenshots

2007-04-04T15:05:00.001+01:00

ZABBIX is a 24×7 monitoring solution without high cost. ZABBIX is software that monitors numerous parameters of a network and the health and integrity of servers. ZABBIX uses a flexible notification mechanism that allows users to configure e-mail based alerts for virtually any event. This allows a fast reaction to server problems. ZABBIX offers excellent reporting and data visualisation features based on the stored data. This makes ZABBIX ideal for capacity planning.

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Nagios2.5 and Oreon 1.3 (Nagios web front end)installation with screenshots

2007-03-21T09:06:00.000Z

Oreon© is an Open Source monitoring solution based on Nagios. It offers to this monitoring standard a new front end and brings it a panel of new functionalities.

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Easy SNMP Server and Client Configuration

2007-03-21T09:04:00.000Z

Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is a widely used protocol for monitoring the health and welfare of network equipment (eg. routers), computer equipment and even devices like UPSs. Net-SNMP is a suite of applications used to implement SNMP v1, SNMP v2c and SNMP v3 using both IPv4 and IPv6.

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How to shutdown Debian linux machine

2007-02-23T16:44:00.000Z

There are several ways to shut down DebianLinux machine cleanly, with the most simple probably being from the GUI environment you are using.For the GNOME desktop enviornment there is the option to shutdown the machine which is immediately available when you click "Logout". Choosing this should log you out of the desktop and also shut the machine down

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Secure Debian System Using FireHOL Firewall

2007-02-23T16:43:00.000Z

FireHOL is a stateful iptables packet filtering firewall configurator. It is abstracted, extensible, easy and powerful. It can handle any kind of firewall, but most importantly, it gives you the means to configure it, the same way you think of it.

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Databases (Mysql,Postgresql,Firebird) Backup Tutorials and Scripts

2007-02-12T13:25:00.000Z

If you're storing anything in databases that you do not want to lose, chances are you should be doing weekly or even daily backups. Depending on what you are using your databases for, be it to store forum messages, employee information, or your spending information, you are going to need to choose a backup that meets your needs.

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Hosting Multiple Websites or Namebased,IPbased Virtual hosts in Lighttpd

2007-02-12T13:24:00.000Z

Hosting Multiple Websites or Namebased,IPbased Virtual hosts in Lighttpd

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Lighttpd Webserver Installation in Debian

2007-02-04T10:00:00.000Z

Security, speed, compliance, and flexibility--all of these describe LightTPD which is rapidly redefining efficiency of a webserver; as it is designed and optimized for high performance environments. With a small memory footprint compared to other web-servers, effective management of the cpu-load, and advanced feature set (FastCGI, CGI, Auth, Output-Compression,URL-Rewriting and many more) LightTPD is the perfect solution for every server that is suffering load problems. And best of all it's Open Source licensed under the revised BSD license.

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Change the MTU of network interface in Debian

2007-02-04T09:58:00.000Z

Maximum Transmission Unit, the largest physical packet size, measured in bytes, that a network can transmit. Any messages larger than the MTU are divided into smaller packets before being sent.

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Darkstat - Nework Traffic Analyzer or Network Monitor

2007-01-10T12:18:00.000Z

darkstat is a network statistics gatherer. Effectively, it's a packet sniffer which runs as a background process on a cable/DSL router, gathers all sorts of useless but interesting statistics,and serves them over HTTP.

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Phpsysinfo configuration in Debian

2007-01-10T12:17:00.000Z

phpSysInfo is a customizable PHP script that parses various files in /proc and displays them. It will display information about system facts like Uptime, CPU, Memory, SCSI, IDE, PCI, Ethernet, Floppy, and Video. It now has full internationalization support along with customizable templates.

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List of Debian Based Linux Distributions and Live CD's

2006-12-29T23:19:00.000Z

Most of the people want to know the list of debian based linux distributions and live cd's.This is very interesting list i haven't seen any place on the net.

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List of Open source Software tools for Linux

2006-12-29T23:17:00.000Z

This is having the list of open source software applications in different categories

This is very help full for most of the linux administrators ,Uses and developers

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Backup Your Servers and Desktop Using BackupPC

2006-12-17T10:49:00.000Z

BackupPC is a high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up Linux and WinXX PCs and laptops to a server's disk. BackupPC is highly configurable and easy to install and maintain.

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Debian Linux Wallpapers Collection

2006-12-17T10:48:00.000Z

This is the best debian linux wall papers collection and i hope you will definitely enjoy this

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Debian Networking Tutorial for Beginners and advanced users

2006-12-11T12:50:00.000Z

This is detailed step step debian networking tutorial for Beginners and advanced users.This includes Configuring your network using GUI,Command line,using ifconfig with examples and troubleshooting your network tips.

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Bacula Web interface or GUI Configuration

2006-11-30T18:04:00.000Z

Bacula-web is a php based web program that provides you a summarized output of jobs that have already run. It obtains its information from your Bacula catalog database. Aside from a nice graphical display, it provides summaries of your jobs, as well as graphs of job usage. This is a fairly high level Bacula management tool.

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Bacula Web interface or GUI Configuration

2006-11-30T18:03:00.000Z

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eBox Installation and Configuration in debian

2006-11-30T18:00:00.000Z

eBox management tool will effectively and easily help you managing the advanced services for your corporate network.
eBox is a framework for the development and deployment of network services in small and medium-sized networks, offering a simplified graphical interface to non expert users. It can be set up as a gateway, having some extra features over a usual router.

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Detailed Bacula Network Backup Implementation tutorial

2006-11-18T20:48:00.000Z

This is very detailed tutorial for implemeting bacula network backup in debian linux.This tutorial contails totally 4 pages.

Bacula is a set of computer programs that permits you (or the system administrator) to manage backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network of computers of different kinds. Bacula can also run entirely upon a single computer, and can backup to various types of media, including tape and disk.

In technical terms, it is a network Client/Server based backup program. Bacula is relatively easy to use and efficient, while offering many advanced storage management features that make it easy to find and recover lost or damaged files. Due to its modular design, Bacula is scalable from small single computer systems to systems consisting of hundreds of computers located over a large network.

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ROX Desktop Environment Installation in Debian

2006-11-18T20:46:00.000Z

ROX is a desktop environment, like GNOME, KDE and XFCE. It is an attempt to bring some of the good features from RISC OS to Unix and Linux.

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Different types of backup in linux

2006-11-08T20:55:00.000Z

There are different kinds of backups in linux

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Creating Name based and ip based Virtual Hosts in Apache Webserver

2006-11-08T20:52:00.000Z

Basics Of Virtual Hosts

Using virtual hosts, host several domains with a single web server. In this way, save the costs and administration workload for separate servers for each domain. There are several options regarding virtual hosts:

Name-based virtual hosts

IP-based virtual hosts

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Burning or Writing DVDs Under Debian

2006-10-29T18:59:00.000Z

If you want to burn DVD's in debian you need to install the "dvd+rw-tools" package.

dvd+rw-tools makes it possible to burn DVD images created by dvdauthor or mkisofs to DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-R, and DVD-RW disks, replacing cdrecord-proDVD in many cases.
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Using Mod_Auth_MySQL with Apache 2 and Debian

2006-10-29T18:58:00.000Z

Firstly if you haven't alrteady done so throw some of the essentials on such as Apache 2 / PHP 4 / MySQL

#apt-get install libapache2-mod-php mysql-server php4-mysql libapache2-mod-auth-mysql

Next we need to enable the module, unlike Apache 1, we don't need to modify any configuration files to add sometype of LoadModule statement, simply

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Using Mod_Auth_MySQL with Apache 2 and Debian

2006-10-22T13:35:00.001+01:00

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Firebird database installation and Configuration

2006-10-22T13:35:00.000+01:00

Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL-99 features that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. Firebird offers excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language support for stored procedures and triggers. It has been used in production systems, under a variety of names since 1981.

Firebird is a commercially independent project of C and C++ programmers, technical advisors and supporters developing and enhancing a multi-platform relational database management system based on the source code released by Inprise Corp (now known as Borland Software Corp) under the InterBase Public License v.1.0 on 25 July, 2000.

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Debian Wallpapers Collection

2006-10-15T11:09:00.000+01:00

Here is the list of debian wallpapers collection.Definitely you will enjoy these links

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Backing Up and Restoring Using the cpio Command

2006-10-15T11:07:00.000+01:00

The cpio command is one of the most commonly used Linux back up tools.

The cpio command has two unusual features

Unlike tar , in which the files to back up are typed in as part of the command, cpio reads the files to work with from the standard input (in other words, the screen).

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Centralized Syslog Server Using syslog-NG

2006-10-10T20:42:00.000+01:00

syslog-ng© is the world's most flexible and scalable audit trail processing tool for organizations of any size. It provides a centralised, securely stored log of all devices on your network, whatever platform they run on. And syslog-ng also incorporates a host of powerful features, including filtering based on message content, as well as customisable data mining and analysis capabilities.Read HereOne more thing is most of the users look for web interface for syslog-NG for this Check here

Linux Backup Basics

2006-10-10T20:41:00.000+01:00

If you are looking for backup basics have a look here

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Apache,Tomcat With mod_jk Installation and Configuration

2006-10-10T20:39:00.000+01:00

Apache Tomcat is the servlet container that is used in the official Reference Implementation for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies.

Apache Tomcat powers numerous large-scale, mission-critical web applications across a diverse range of industries and organizations.

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Ethernet Bonding Configuration in Linux

2006-10-05T16:14:00.000+01:00

Ethernet bonding refers to aggregating multiple ethernet channels together to form a single channel. This is primarily used for redundancy in ethernet paths or for load balancing.
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Scheduling Backup Jobs using at and crontab

2006-10-05T16:13:00.000+01:00

You can schedule a command or a script using two tools, either crontab ( Schedules tasks once or repeatedly) or at (Schedules tasks once)

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WWWCounter Configuration for your Hosting Websites

2006-10-04T21:55:00.000+01:00

This is a CGI program to keep record of the raw hits of a web page. It generates a GIF image of the number of hits and returns to the browser as an in-lined image. The program also has a run-time option not to show the digit images, this way the hits can be kept without displaying it. The hits can be be monitored without incrementing from a separate page as well. The program can also can display time and date of any timezone. It has a option to countdown to a specific date (past or future). This program started as a fun-to-play-with CGI program but due to enormous interest, feature request, input from thousands of you, it has turned in to the most configurable hit counter on the whole World Wide Web and it's free. The program runs on almost all Known Unix platforms, Windows NT, OS/2, VMS and Amiga.

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Taking Backups Using tar command in Linux and Unix

2006-10-04T21:53:00.000+01:00

The tar backup program is an archiving program designed to store and extract files from an archive file known as a tarfile. A tarfile may be made on a tape drive; however, it is also common to write a tarfile to a normal file.

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Mailman with Postfix Configuration

2006-10-02T22:30:00.000+01:00

Mailman is free sMailman is free software for managing electronic mail discussion and e-newsletter lists. Mailman is integrated with the web, making it easy for users to manage their accounts and for list owners to administer their lists. Mailman supports built-in archiving, automatic bounce processing, content filtering, digest delivery, spam filters, and more.

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VHCS2.4.7 ISP Control Panel Configuration

2006-10-02T22:28:00.000+01:00

VHCS delivers a complete hosting automation appliance by offering significant security, total-cost-of-ownership, and performance advantages over competing commercial solutions.

With VHCS Pro you can configure your server and applications, create user with domains with a few point-and-click operations that take less than a minute. There is no limit to the number of resellers, users and domains that can be created.At the core of VHCS Pro are 3 easy-to-use, Web-based control panels. VHCS provides graphic user interfaces for the administrators, resellers and users.

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ACL(Access Control List) Configuration

2006-09-30T10:44:00.000+01:00

Access Control Lists (ACLs) provide a much more flexible way of specifying permissions on a file or other object than the standard Unix user/group/owner system. Windows NT and above, when running on an NTFS partition, use ACLs to specify permissions on files and directories. This document attempts to show how you can enable ACL support on your Linux box and use Samba to provide an SMB file server for use by machines in a Windows 2000 domain.

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PostgreSQL Database Server Configuration

2006-09-30T10:43:00.000+01:00

PostgreSQL is a fully featured object-relational database management system. It supports a large part of the SQL standard and is designed to be extensible by users in many aspects.

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Base-config - Debian base system configuration

2006-09-27T13:18:00.000+01:00

base-config this package handles setting up the Debian base system. It contains the configuration program you see when you install Debian for the first time and boot up your new Debian system.

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Apache server benchmarking tool for apache stress test

2006-09-27T13:14:00.000+01:00

ab is a tool for benchmarking your Apache Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) server. It is designed to give you an impression of how your current Apache installation performs. This especially shows you how many requests per second your Apache installation is capable of serving.

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Mysql Database Backup Script

2006-09-26T20:47:00.000+01:00

A script to take daily, weekly and monthly backups of your MySQL databases using mysqldump. Features - Backup mutiple databases - Single backup file or to a seperate file for each DB - Compress backup files - Backup remote servers - E-mail logs – More

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Give Secure root access using sudo in Linux

2006-09-25T20:51:00.000+01:00

Sudo is a program designed to allow a sysadmin to give limited root privileges to users and log root activity. The basic philosophy is to give as few privileges as possible but still allow people to get their work done.

Debian's sudo package has the password timeout set to 15 minutes. This means that when you first enter your password, as long as you don't wait more than 15 minutes between sudo commands, you won't have to enter it again. The password timeout can be immediately expired with sudo -k.

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Apache Log analysis using Analog

2006-09-25T20:49:00.000+01:00

Analog is a program to measure the usage on your web server. It tells you which pages are most popular, which countries people are visiting from, which sites they tried to follow broken links from, and all sorts of other useful information

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Secure Your Server Using picoFIREWALL

2006-09-24T12:19:00.000+01:00

A Linux Firewall for Debian, SuSE, and other Linux Distributions - Tested on Debian and SuSE Linux.picoFirewall protects your personal PC reliably and without configuration.picoFirewall protects your server reliably and with little configuration.

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java installation From Debian packages

2006-09-24T12:17:00.000+01:00

Java is a strongly-typed platform-independent object-oriented programming language often associated with the World Wide Web. Java was developed by Sun Microsystems for embedded applications, but has since grown to become a general-purpose programming language. Java source code can either be compiled to a machine-independent byte-code that can be run by Java virtual machines, or it can be compiled directly to executable code for any number of platforms, including Linux, Win32, and others.

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Mplayer installation and Configuration

2006-09-23T11:10:00.000+01:00

MPlayer is a movie and animation player that supports a wide range of codecs and file formats, including MPEG 1/2/4, DivX 3/4/5, Windows Media 7/8/9, RealAudio/Video up to 9, Quicktime 5/6, and Vivo 1/2. It has many MMX/SSE(2)/3Dnow(Ex) optimized native audio and video codecs, but allows using XAnim's and RealPlayer's binary codec plugins, and Win32 codec DLLs. It has basic VCD/DVD playback functionality, including DVD subtitles, but supports many text-based subtitle formats too. For video output, nearly every existing interface is supported. It's also able to convert any supported files to raw/divx/mpeg4 AVI (pcm/mp3 audio), and even video grabbing from V4L devices.

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Proftp Server Web Interface or GUI tools list

2006-09-23T11:09:00.000+01:00

this is the only place you have the proftp server web interface tools list.Most of the administrators will look for GUI tools for easy management of ftp servers

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Samba server configuration

2006-09-22T11:23:00.000+01:00

Samba is a suite of Unix applications that speak the SMB (Server Message Block) protocol. Many operating systems, including Windows and OS/2, use SMB to perform client-server networking. By supporting this protocol, Samba allows Unix servers to get in on the action, communicating with the same networking protocol as Microsoft Windows products.

Samba Server Configuration in Debian

Monitoring Servers and Clients using Munin

2006-09-22T11:20:00.000+01:00

Munin the tool surveys all your computers and remembers what it saw. It presents all the information in in graphs through a web interface. Its emphasis is on plug and play capabilities. After completing a installation a high number of monitoring plugins will be playing with no more effort. Using Munin you can easily monitor the performance of your computers, networks, SANs, and quite possibly applications as well. It makes it easy to determine "what's different today" when a performance problem crops up. It makes it easy to see how you're doing capacity wise on all limited resources.

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Easy SNMP Server and Client Configuration Steps

2006-09-21T14:03:00.000+01:00

ZABBIX monitoring System installation with screenshots

2006-09-21T14:02:00.000+01:00

ZABBIX is a 24×7 monitoring solution without high cost.

ZABBIX is software that monitors numerous parameters of a network and the health and integrity of servers. ZABBIX uses a flexible notification mechanism that allows users to configure e-mail based alerts for virtually any event. This allows a fast reaction to server problems. ZABBIX offers excellent reporting and data visualisation features based on the stored data. This makes ZABBIX ideal for capacity planning.

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Debian Server Setup Step By Step Tutorials

2006-09-20T11:51:00.000+01:00

Installation,FTP Server Setup,Webserver Setup,Samba Server Setup,Database Server Setup,time clock sync server,Mail Server Configuration,VNC Server setup,Proxy Server Setup,SSH Server Setup,tftp Server Setup,DHCP Server Setup,IPtables Configuration, DNS Server Setup,Firewalls configuration,Backup configuration

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Debian Network Utilities and tools With Examples

2006-09-20T11:41:00.000+01:00

Lighttpd Webserver Installation and Configuration

2006-09-20T10:51:00.000+01:00

BackupPC Installation And Configuration

2006-09-20T10:50:00.000+01:00

BackupPC is a high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up Linux and WinXX PCs and laptops to a server's disk. BackupPC is highly configurable and easy to install and maintain.

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Darkstat - Nework Traffic Analyzer or Network Monitor

2006-09-20T10:37:00.000+01:00

Secure Debian System Using FireHOL Firewall

2006-09-20T10:18:00.000+01:00

Nagios 2.5 and Oreon 1.3 (Nagios web front end) installation with screenshots

2006-09-20T09:18:00.000+01:00

Oreon© is an Open Source monitoring solution based on Nagios. It offers to this monitoring standard a new front end and brings it a panel of new functionalities.

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Opensource Bandwidth,Network and Servers Monitoring tools with Tutorials

2006-09-20T09:14:00.000+01:00

This is very good tutorials for bandwidth monitoring,network monitoring and servers monitoring tools with clear step by step installation guides this includes Nagios,MRTG,RTG,
Netmrg,Darkstat,monit,munin,mon,oreon,Saidar ,Cacti,Bigsister,
ibmonitor,zabbix.This resouce is Very useful for Users and Administrators to monitor their networks,bandwidth and servers.

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Debian Network Utilities and tools With Examples

2006-09-19T23:13:00.000+01:00

Debian etch beta 3 graphical mode installation with screenshots

2006-09-19T23:03:00.000+01:00

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2006-09-19T22:38:00.000+01:00

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